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Self-employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

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dc.creator Glocker, Daniela
dc.creator Steiner, Viktor
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:47Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:47Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18393
dc.identifier ppn:523979568
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18393
dc.description This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases entry rates into self-employment for both men and women. These effects are quantitatively important, both in absolute terms and compared to other potential determinants of self-employment transitions, such as age, the level of vocational qualification and certain household characteristics.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 661
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject C35
dc.subject J64
dc.subject J23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject self-employment
dc.subject entrepreneurship
dc.subject entry rate
dc.subject start-ups
dc.subject unemployment
dc.subject pseudopanel
dc.subject age and cohort effects
dc.subject Selbstständige
dc.subject Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit
dc.subject Unternehmensgründung
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Self-employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1996-2002


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